<< The retraction, based on a monthslong investigation, said that the study was flawed because its soil samples “were not associated with any artifacts or features that could be reliably interpreted as anthropogenic or ‘man-made.’”
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One prominent supporter of Mr. Natawidjaja’s research, the journalist Graham Hancock, said in a statement he did not see the retraction as “fair, just
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Ancient History
Open Access
QuoteWritten artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in many ways. Eleven case studies in five sections on the ancient world, including the Near East, Egypt, the Mediterranean, China and India, demonstrate the impact of a holistic approach that considers materiality and content alike.
Se
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Hermione
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
A couple of hikers stumbled upon a struggling sheep on their walk through the Peak District.
Charlotte Emery and Katy Maughan were walking near Buxton, Derbyshire, when they spotted the pregnant ewe on its back and decided to help.
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Hermione
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Coffee Shop
Please, everyone ... I think we should be discussing evidence, not posters on other forums ...
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
A unique scroll, known as the "Horoscope," has been discovered in the Judean Desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced this week.
The artifact provides a glimpse into the astrological beliefs and practices of an ancient sect, combining historical and mystical elements.
Written in Hebrew from left to right, an unusual direction, the scroll includes Greek, Aramaic, and anci
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Hermione
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Ancient History
Corvidius Wrote:
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> He seems to have been operating in woo territory,
> and indulging in a bit of plagarism, one of his
> videos about Tutankhamun seems to have taken some
> ideas from material I had posted on the Historum
> forum back in about 2017, and I believe others
> have had their work appropriated by him. Ho
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
Druridge Bay is about 45-50 miles north of the Tees Estuary, where sea-creatures have been dying over past years.
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Hermione
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Laboratory
Marine experts say it is not clear why a number of dead porpoises have washed up on a stretch of North East coastline.
At least five have been found on Druridge Bay and Cresswell, Northumberland, in the last week and a sixth was found further north in Craster on Monday.
"We usually get one or two a month at most, so to get a group like that in the same area is quite unusual," Ivor
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Hermione
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Laboratory
At about 18:29, the presenter states that Martin Stower's tireless work was the basis for the whole video.
(Although it should perhaps be added that the video also deals with the Gorlitz and Erdmann affair, a subject that doesn't come up in "Strange Journey.")
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
(links to chapters available in Introduction beneath video)
0:00 Introduction
2:10 The Khufu Hoax Myth
3:54 Vyse's Discoveries
9:09 The Khufu Cartouches
11:06 The Controversy Over the Discovery
18:58 The Forgery Claims
20:18 Claim 1: The Words of Samuel Birch
24:39 Claim 2: An Eye-witness to the Forgery
29:39 Claim 3: The Journal of Howard Vyse
32:15 Claim 4: The Red Ochre was Ra
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
A spike in UFO sightings in the 1950s and 60s was caused by tests of advanced US spy planes and space technology, a Pentagon report has concluded.
Officials also said there was "no evidence" that the US government had encountered alien life.
Most sightings of UFOs were ordinary objects from Earth, according to the report submitted to Congress on Friday.
On Friday, the gov
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Hermione
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Paper Lens
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Link to documentary ...
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> db
There was a problem with the link to the documentary itself.
(It would also be good if you could give a brief description of the documentary, how long it is, etc.)
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Hermione
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
On 8 March 2014, less than an hour into a routine night-time flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the pilot said goodnight to Malaysian air traffic control. The Boeing 777, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, was about to cross into Vietnamese air space.
It then abruptly changed direction, and all electronic communications were cut. It turned back, first over Malaysia, and then out in
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Hermione
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Laboratory
The Classical Gazetteer is a short descriptive geographical dictionary by William Hazlitt (son of the critic William Hazlitt), written in 1851 and containing 15,000 places of Greek and Roman antiquity without citation of primary sources.
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Hermione
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Scientists have found what they believe to be the world's earliest known fossilised forest in cliffs on the coast of South West England.
It was discovered in high sandstone cliffs near Minehead, Somerset, close to a Butlin's holiday camp.
Researchers from Cambridge and Cardiff Universities say they are the oldest fossilised trees ever found in Britain and the oldest known forest o
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Hermione
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Laboratory
Related HoM threads on the Younger Dryas -
Threads mentioning Boslough -
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Hermione
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Laboratory
(Paul H. has just drawn attention to the attached article):
QuoteMainstream science has done its best to debunk the notion, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum.
By Zach St. George
March 5, 2024
In 2007, a group of researchers, led by a nuclear physicist named Richard Firestone, announced an astonishing discovery. They had uncovered evi
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Hermione
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Laboratory
QuoteArchaeologists have identified evidence of a Jewish-Islamic scientific collaboration having taken place a thousand years ago, thanks to an archaic star chart once thought to be a forgery.
It’s now been described by researchers as the most important artefact in the collection of the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona, Italy.
A chance discovery of a photo of the ‘astrolabe
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Hermione
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Ancient History
A mysterious, new fetal mummy has surfaced — and one veteran public radio reporter suspects it could be 'alien' or a 'tiny humanoid' from an ancient species.
The alleged extraterrestrial has an elongated skull, slanted eyes, and an unusual number of ribs, at least according to the reporter, who stated that the body seemed to have 10 ribs on each side of the body compared t
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Hermione
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Ancient History
My apologies for this, Jammer: several of us have been having problems in the past few months (moderators included).
Firefox seems to be the best bet at the moment: although one person says that they don't have any problems even with Chrome ...
I will pass your comments on: but please let us know if you have any further problems.
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Coffee Shop
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Hermione. I have re-read the quote and it
> clearly states that the cartouche found on the
> wall was an unknown name for Khufu by
> Egyptologists at the time of the discovery.
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> QuoteIt was not known
> > by any Egyptologist at that time that Egyptian
> > pharaohs had 5 names, tw
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Well I can't believe this argument is still
> raging. We should simply put Creighton and Stower
> in a UFC ring and let them settle it there.
Well: I think we have to hope that reason will eventually prevail over fisticuffs!
> But first this quote has me puzzled:
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> QuoteTo convincin
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Ancient Egypt
The legal case takes off.
<< A hearing at the High Court, on Thursday, was told Mr Taylor was bringing legal action against Mr Coogan, his production company Baby Cow, and Pathé Productions. >>
<< Philippa Langley (pictured) was portrayed by Sally King in the film >>
Er ... that would be Sally Hawkins.
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Paper Lens